Safety standards are designed to keep employees healthy. These safety standards include work practices and engineered safety products. Safe work practices include proper methods of storage, labeling, decontamination and transportation of various sharps. Alternatives are available for the safe transportation of hypodermic needles.
Would you like to carry hypodermics from the prison pharmacy to the infirmary in your hand or would you prefer a more secure method of carrying them?
Products are available that can can protect the healthcare giver even in these type of situations.